.NET Core Job Trends in England

.NET Core
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in England requiring .NET Core skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 8 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 311 297 127
Rank change year-on-year -14 -170 +31
Permanent jobs citing .NET Core 462 408 1,870
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.57% 1.05% 2.23%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.85% 5.34% 11.03%
Number of salaries quoted 431 351 1,773
10th Percentile £45,000 £40,000 £38,750
25th Percentile £50,000 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.35% -11.54%
75th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £71,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £90,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +9.09% -12.00%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
England

.NET Core falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 7,898 7,642 16,960
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 9.78% 19.63% 20.25%
Number of salaries quoted 5,955 5,674 14,137
10th Percentile £40,000 £39,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £51,250 £51,250 £46,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £66,254 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.88% +10.42% -11.11%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,500 £100,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £66,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -1.52% +10.00% -11.11%

.NET Core
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing .NET Core relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in England.

.NET Core job vacancy trend in England

.NET Core
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing .NET Core.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing .NET Core

.NET Core
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing .NET Core in England over the 6 months to 8 May 2026.

Salary histogram for .NET Core in England

.NET Core
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing .NET Core within the England region over the 6 months to 8 May 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
North of England -48 119 £55,000 -8.33% 46
London -55 86 £82,500 +3.13% 58
South East -19 75 £60,000 +14.29% 48
Midlands -1 72 £65,000 +23.81% 27
North West -18 66 £55,000 -8.33% 24
South West -25 52 £52,500 -22.22% 17
East of England +15 51 £90,000 +67.44% 30
East Midlands +7 50 £65,000 +23.81% 11
North East -16 34 £65,000 +44.44% 9
West Midlands -36 22 £60,000 +1.69% 16
Yorkshire -65 19 £55,000 -8.33% 14
.NET Core
UK

.NET Core
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 21 (4.55%) SharePoint
2 8 (1.73%) IIS
3 3 (0.65%) CMS
4 1 (0.22%) Headless CMS
4 1 (0.22%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 1 (0.22%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (0.43%) Magento
2 1 (0.22%) ION Anvil
2 1 (0.22%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.22%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 296 (64.07%) Azure
2 84 (18.18%) AWS
3 83 (17.97%) Azure DevOps
4 47 (10.17%) SaaS
5 45 (9.74%) Azure Logic Apps
6 44 (9.52%) GitHub
6 44 (9.52%) Serverless
7 40 (8.66%) Power Platform
8 23 (4.98%) Azure AI
8 23 (4.98%) Power Automate
8 23 (4.98%) PowerApps
9 22 (4.76%) Azure Data Factory
9 22 (4.76%) GitHub Copilot
10 21 (4.55%) Microsoft 365
11 20 (4.33%) Azure Functions
11 20 (4.33%) Azure Monitor
12 19 (4.11%) Adobe Creative Cloud
12 19 (4.11%) Azure Service Bus
12 19 (4.11%) GitHub Actions
12 19 (4.11%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 7 (1.52%) Internet
2 2 (0.43%) Hyperconnected
3 1 (0.22%) AMQP
3 1 (0.22%) Firewall
3 1 (0.22%) HTTPS
3 1 (0.22%) Modbus
3 1 (0.22%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 152 (32.90%) SQL Server
2 108 (23.38%) Azure SQL Database
3 68 (14.72%) MongoDB
4 35 (7.58%) Power BI
5 27 (5.84%) NoSQL
6 24 (5.19%) Elasticsearch
7 19 (4.11%) PostgreSQL
8 13 (2.81%) MySQL
9 10 (2.16%) DynamoDB
10 8 (1.73%) Relational Database
11 7 (1.52%) Redis
12 3 (0.65%) NonStop SQL
13 2 (0.43%) Amazon RDS
13 2 (0.43%) GIS
13 2 (0.43%) MariaDB
14 1 (0.22%) Data Lake
14 1 (0.22%) Data Warehouse
14 1 (0.22%) Electronic Patient Records
14 1 (0.22%) RDBMS
14 1 (0.22%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 45 (9.74%) Git
2 7 (1.52%) Visual Studio
3 6 (1.30%) JIRA
3 6 (1.30%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 4 (0.87%) Jenkins
5 3 (0.65%) Vite
6 2 (0.43%) Cypress.io
6 2 (0.43%) GitLab
6 2 (0.43%) MSTest
6 2 (0.43%) NUnit
6 2 (0.43%) webpack
7 1 (0.22%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 1 (0.22%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.22%) CA Release Automation
7 1 (0.22%) Claude Code
7 1 (0.22%) Selenium
7 1 (0.22%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 73 (15.80%) Finance
2 50 (10.82%) Social Skills
3 20 (4.33%) Games
4 15 (3.25%) Banking
5 11 (2.38%) Retail
6 10 (2.16%) Law
7 9 (1.95%) Advertising
7 9 (1.95%) Automotive
7 9 (1.95%) Front Office
8 8 (1.73%) Analytical Skills
9 6 (1.30%) Marketing
9 6 (1.30%) Public Sector
10 5 (1.08%) Legal
11 4 (0.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 3 (0.65%) Financial Institution
13 2 (0.43%) Back Office
13 2 (0.43%) Influencing Skills
13 2 (0.43%) Manufacturing
13 2 (0.43%) Pharmaceutical
13 2 (0.43%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 343 (74.24%) Developer
2 180 (38.96%) .NET Developer
3 125 (27.06%) Senior
4 106 (22.94%) Software Developer
5 78 (16.88%) Senior Developer
6 74 (16.02%) C# Developer
7 54 (11.69%) Lead
8 53 (11.47%) C# .NET Developer
9 49 (10.61%) Full-Stack Developer
10 46 (9.96%) Software Engineer
11 30 (6.49%) Lead Developer
12 28 (6.06%) Senior Software Developer
12 28 (6.06%) Senior Software Engineer
13 26 (5.63%) .NET Software Developer
14 23 (4.98%) .NET Software Engineer
14 23 (4.98%) Applications Developer
15 21 (4.55%) Azure Engineer
16 20 (4.33%) Azure Developer
16 20 (4.33%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
16 20 (4.33%) Senior .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 462 (100.00%) .NET
2 177 (38.31%) ASP.NET
3 96 (20.78%) React
4 94 (20.35%) ASP.NET Core
5 91 (19.70%) .NET Framework
6 80 (17.32%) HTML
7 77 (16.67%) CSS
8 75 (16.23%) Entity Framework
9 73 (15.80%) RESTful
10 69 (14.94%) Blazor
11 59 (12.77%) Vue
12 58 (12.55%) AngularJS
13 42 (9.09%) ASP.NET Web API
13 42 (9.09%) Node.js
14 34 (7.36%) REST
15 29 (6.28%) JSON
16 26 (5.63%) ASP.NET MVC
17 23 (4.98%) ML.NET
18 22 (4.76%) LINQ
19 21 (4.55%) Microsoft Graph
Miscellaneous
1 31 (6.71%) Cloud Native
2 26 (5.63%) Greenfield Project
3 17 (3.68%) Team-Oriented Environment
4 14 (3.03%) Enterprise Software
5 12 (2.60%) Sports Betting
6 11 (2.38%) Distributed Systems
6 11 (2.38%) Hedge funds
6 11 (2.38%) Product Ownership
7 8 (1.73%) Legacy Systems
8 7 (1.52%) Algorithms
9 6 (1.30%) 3D Graphics
9 6 (1.30%) Digital TV
9 6 (1.30%) Low-Code
10 5 (1.08%) Social Network
11 3 (0.65%) Distributed Computing
11 3 (0.65%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 3 (0.65%) Hybrid Cloud
11 3 (0.65%) iPhone
11 3 (0.65%) Mobile App
11 3 (0.65%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 13 (2.81%) VMS
2 7 (1.52%) Windows
3 5 (1.08%) Linux
4 3 (0.65%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 185 (40.04%) Full-Stack Development
2 157 (33.98%) Agile
3 129 (27.92%) CI/CD
4 114 (24.68%) DevOps
5 105 (22.73%) Software Engineering
6 84 (18.18%) Microservices
7 59 (12.77%) MVC
8 55 (11.90%) Containerisation
9 50 (10.82%) Continuous Improvement
10 48 (10.39%) SDLC
11 43 (9.31%) Machine Learning
12 40 (8.66%) AI
12 40 (8.66%) OO
12 40 (8.66%) User Experience
13 37 (8.01%) Business Intelligence
13 37 (8.01%) Collaborative Culture
14 36 (7.79%) Analytics
15 35 (7.58%) Clean Code
15 35 (7.58%) Mentoring
16 34 (7.36%) Multithreading
Programming Languages
1 412 (89.18%) C#
2 226 (48.92%) SQL
3 133 (28.79%) JavaScript
4 87 (18.83%) TypeScript
5 39 (8.44%) PowerShell
6 17 (3.68%) Python
7 12 (2.60%) Kusto Query Language
7 12 (2.60%) T-SQL
8 6 (1.30%) Bash
9 4 (0.87%) Bicep
9 4 (0.87%) Java
10 3 (0.65%) PHP
11 2 (0.43%) VB.NET
12 1 (0.22%) C++
12 1 (0.22%) F#
Qualifications
1 32 (6.93%) Degree
2 15 (3.25%) Computer Science Degree
3 9 (1.95%) AWS Certification
4 8 (1.73%) AWS Certified Developer
5 7 (1.52%) Security Cleared
6 5 (1.08%) Microsoft Certification
7 4 (0.87%) Azure Certification
8 2 (0.43%) DBS Check
8 2 (0.43%) Master's Degree
8 2 (0.43%) SC Cleared
9 1 (0.22%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.22%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (3.25%) QA
2 6 (1.30%) Accessibility
3 2 (0.43%) GDPR
3 2 (0.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (0.43%) ITGC
3 2 (0.43%) SLA
4 1 (0.22%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 1 (0.22%) WCAG
System Software
1 92 (19.91%) Docker
Systems Management
1 79 (17.10%) Kubernetes
2 28 (6.06%) Terraform
3 2 (0.43%) Ansible
Vendors
1 180 (38.96%) Microsoft
2 19 (4.11%) Adobe
3 10 (2.16%) Google
4 9 (1.95%) Facebook
5 5 (1.08%) CrowdStrike
6 4 (0.87%) Workday
6 4 (0.87%) YouTube
7 2 (0.43%) Apple
7 2 (0.43%) CA Agile Central
7 2 (0.43%) Foundry
7 2 (0.43%) Oracle
7 2 (0.43%) Salesforce
7 2 (0.43%) Sony
7 2 (0.43%) Yahoo!
8 1 (0.22%) Bloomberg
8 1 (0.22%) IBM
8 1 (0.22%) ION Trading
8 1 (0.22%) Reuters
8 1 (0.22%) Sitecore
8 1 (0.22%) Splunk